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Old 04-26-2007
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Re: Who do you support in the final round of the French presidential election?

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Originally Posted by Anselme View Post
What's the purpose of UDF if it's to always agree to UMP? UDF is not an annex of UMP
Of course not, I never said something like this. I talked about belonging to the right, not to a party. There are different sensibilities in the right (as in the left BTW)
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UDF had to solutions: either dissolve it and join fully UMP or tend to the center which is the purpose of UDF...
Actually, 18%, there is a demand of a centrist party, so why not creating a real centrist party?
UDF has always been a center party, from VGE to Bayrou, nothing new here
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si l'UDF etait un partie de droite qui avant a tendance a tendre sur le centre... ca ne peut plus etre le cas aujourd'hui
How so ?
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L'UMP tend vers l'extreme droite, le PS tend vers l'extreme gauche...
Sorry, I disagree with you, for both the UMP and the PS.
The UMP belongs to the traditional right like RPR was before. The fact that a lot of people who voted for Le Pen in 2002 gave their vote to Sarko doesn't change anything. Actually today FN's score id closer to the reality than in 2002.
As for the PS, if you compare with Miterrand and Moroy (1981-1983), Sego is unquestionably more on the right side of the left.

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Et pourquoi? Parce que Sarko et Sego sont autant opportuniste que Bayrou l'est, ils essayent de ramasser des voix sur leur extremes afin d'etre elu... Ce qui laisse un boulevard libre pour un parti centriste, de fait, Sarko et Sego ont en quelque sorte aider Bayrou.
I think that what helped Bayrou the more is his systematic opposition to the necessary and unpopular reforms the 2 governments since 2002 tried to achieve.
A very smart attitude from a political stance, but again very opportunistic
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